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‘We’ve been fighting crime,’ Pritzker tells AP during tour of city to counter Trump’s crime claims

By SOPHIA TAREEN
Aug 28, 2025 8:00 am - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t need or want military intervention to fight crime, showing off parts of the city where violent crime has decreased and saying sending in the National Guard could only escalate problems.
Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JOSHUA GOODMAN
Aug 28, 2025 7:12 am - When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, it didn’t turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.
Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire

By JESSE BEDAYN and GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO
Aug 28, 2025 7:09 am - In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis, the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year.
Trump, Gabbard purged top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit

By Warren P. Strobel, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung
Aug 27, 2025 10:38 pm - In the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s Aug. 15 Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the CIA’s senior-most Russia experts worked gruelin...
National Guard troops deployed in DC add sanitation, landscaping duties

By Tara Copp
Aug 27, 2025 8:57 pm - The August air was crisp Tuesday as members of D.C’s National Guard, a key component of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the District, scooped, spread and smoothed mounds of mulch around the city’s treasured Tidal Basin cherry trees.As they raked, specks of dirt and mulch floated upward into early morning sunbeams, an idyllic image starkly at odds with the president’s portrayal of Washington as a violent, lawless dystopia.
Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting, in attack on Voting Rights Act

By MARK SHERMAN
Aug 27, 2025 8:16 pm - Louisiana on Wednesday abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.
CDC director being ousted refuses to resign, says RFK Jr. is ‘weaponizing public health’

By Lena H. Sun, Dan Diamond and Lauren Weber
Aug 27, 2025 8:06 pm - The Trump administration moved Wednesday to oust Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she faced pressure to change vaccine policy, sparking the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed.Hours after the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monarez was no longer the director, her lawyers responded with a fiery statement saying she has not resigned or been fired.
Journalist’s final images show the Gaza hospital stairwell where she was killed by an Israeli strike

By EDITH M. LEDERER and JOHN SEEWER
Aug 27, 2025 6:57 pm - The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later. Dagga,...
Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged influence campaign in Greenland

By Vivian Ho and William Booth
Aug 27, 2025 6:25 pm - Denmark’s foreign minister summoned the most senior U.S. diplomat in the country Wednesday after the nation’s public broadcaster reported that Americans have been conducting influence operations in Greenland, the semiautonomous territory that President Donald Trump wants the United States to control.
FBI warns Chinese hacking campaign has expanded, reaching 80 countries

By Joseph Menn
Aug 27, 2025 6:18 pm - The FBI and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world warned Wednesday that a Chinese-government hacking campaign that previously penetrated nine U.S. telecommunications companies has expanded into other industries and regions, striking at least 200 American organizations and 80 countries.

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